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Poverty, Inc. Robert Sirico narrates this informative, eye-opening, fascinating, 91-minute, 2015 documentary that focuses on Haiti and Africa to examine the long-term negative effects on the local economy when well-meaning agricultural and financial subsidies continue beyond the initial distribution of humanitarian aid after a devastating crisis such as a hurricane, tornado, or earthquake and discusses the logistics and theory of foreign aid, and how non-government organizations (NGOs), charities, aid agencies, corporations, governments, and social entrepreneurs unfortunately end up contributing to poverty by "good deeds"; the film uses interviews with anthropologist/researcher/author Timothy T. Schwartz who documented his experiences in Haiti in Travesty in Haiti, SEVEN Fund cofounder Andrea Widmer [Switzerland], farmers Jacob Donatien [Haiti] and Joel Salatin [USA], CEO Kenneth Michel [Haiti], Apparent Project cofounder/artist/filmmaker Clay Carrigan [Haiti], Apparent founder Shelley Carrigan, Grameen Bank president Muhammed Yunus [Bangeldesh], Enersa cofounders Jean-Paul Noel and Alex George [Haiti], Ensersa lighting technician Frantz Derosier [Haiti], author/psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple [England], "Bill Gates of Africa" entrepreneur Herman Chinery-Hesse [Ghana], Anglican archbishop John Rucyahana [Rwanda], American University economics professor George Ayittey and author of Africa Unchained [Ghana], Trossan founder Magatte Wade [Senegal], Rwanda president Paul Kagame, brand strategist/entrepreneur Eva Muraya [Kenya], Hope International founder Peter Grier [USA], Partners Worldwide founder Daniel Jean Louis [Haiti], Oxford University professor and author of The Bottom Billion Paul Collier [England], and economist and author of Mystery of the Capital Hernando de Soto [Peru] to support the filmmaker's findings.   Redhead: Year: 2015 Rating:  NR View Poverty, Inc. on the Internet Movie Database